One of my most enjoyable purchases of 2013 wasn’t actually a purchase at all, it was a donation. I read Seth Godin’s blog every day and one day he mentioned that he had reserved copies of his ridiculously big and inspiring book, This Might Work, for those who would donate to a cause he was […]

Emily Freeman is hosting ‘What We Learned in December’. Here’s what I learned. ~ Cyclamen look great as Christmas decorations planted in the pots on my front porch.   Next year I’m using more white ones than red so that after Christmas I can pull out the red ones and add a few primrose in […]

“Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.” Thomas À Kempis If I didn’t know better I’d say that Oswald Chambers was out to get me. I read ahead in my little devotional and it serves me right. Just after Thomas À Kempis had weighed in, Chambers piled on. “God […]

Each of us has a unique set of ingredients that need to be in the mix for us to consider our own marriage a success. Did you catch the unique part? What works for your friends might not work for you. And what works for you must also work for your spouse. Marriage is a […]

I blame all this nostalgia on Christmas. But that doesn’t mean I’m not enjoying the pain-laced good memories Christmas always conjures up. Pain because it all was so good and now it’s all gone, never to be experienced by American children again. What are the top 10 gifts you’ve ever received for Christmas? The year […]

Like millions of others I spent Christmas day with my kids. My kids are grown and some of their kids are pretty much grown so today I watched them interact and thought about the people they’d become. It wasn’t like an out of body experience, but it was still a little strange. I found myself […]

Have you seen the previews for the new movie Heaven is for Real? The film is based on the NY Times bestseller of the same name by Todd Burpo. It tells the story of Colton, Burpo’s 3 year old who had a near death experience. I haven’t read the book. But, I have been thinking […]

Can you remember being a child and waiting for Christmas? The anticipation grew every day. Of course it was all about getting. It was completely selfish. I was 7 the first time I felt a different excitement, the eagerness to see someone else receive a gift from me. My Dad took my siblings and me […]

When life begins to take me to school I feel like staying home sick. Especially when I know I’m repeating a course that I’ve failed before. Meeting the steep uphill parts of life gets frustrating and makes more than just my calves hurt. What changes if I began to think VERY DIFFERENTLY about the uphill […]